I notice a new category in WSUS/SCCM products list. The product was Skype. Has we have a few clients with Skype installed I checked the box. Today I had a new update available, Skype 5.9 for Windows. It came in software updates so I deployed thinking that it would update the machines that needed to be updated, machines with Skype installed. But Skype update is being installed even in machines without Skype installed.

Like it would if I had distributed via software distribution. This is not normal, is it? An update should not affect machine without the software installed? Is this a way for Microsoft to have Skype disseminated?

Skype is the new toy for Microsoft, so they’re likely still just testing the deployment waters with this. Once they get enough complaints (and they will!), they’ll pull it from deployment channels, like they did with Windows Live Essentials on MU.